Vice President Joe Biden made guests at a Washington, D.C., fundraising breakfast sit up and take notice when he called them “dull as hell.” The Veep is famous for his loose lips, from telling a 2008 Seattle gathering that an Obama administration would face a big early foreign policy test, to whispering to President Obama […]
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The U.S. Senate, with strong bipartisan support, on Thursday voted to renew and strengthen the 18-year-old Violence Against Women Act, a measure championed by Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. The 68-31 vote sends “VAWA” to the House of Representatives, where Republicans are crafting a less ambitious bill. The Senate-passed bill gives new attention […]
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President Obama will hold his third Seattle-area $35,800-a-couple fundraiser of the 2012 campaign when he visits the Emerald City on May 10. The “High Dollar Brunch” will be held in the East Seattle home of Ann and Bruce Blume. It will be followed by a $1,000-a-person lunch at the Paramount that will also feature entertainer […]
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Barack and Michelle Obama will be “joining the debate” of the 2012 presidential election with two big campaign rallies in two swing states on May 5, at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. “Welcome to the general election!” Obama campaign manager Jim Messina told reporters on a conference […]
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Enactment of a first-in-the-nation Reproductive Parity Act by Washington would jeopardize health care money coming to the state from the “other” Washington, according to Attorney General Rob McKenna. “I support existing Washington law which guarantees a woman’s access to health care insurance coverage,” the Republican gubernatorial candidate said in a statement. “I will not support […]
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The tab for having the U.S. Secret Service protect indebted, dead-in-the-water Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich comes to at least $40,000 and will total $5 million if Gingrich stays a candidate until the GOP convention. The protection bill is “enough to supply 13,333 people a day with food stamps,” Bloomberg/Business Week estimated on Tuesday. Gingrich […]
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The 20th Century’s most successful Idaho Democrat, four-term Gov. Cecil Andrus, was once officially asked to leave the party in a resolution passed by Washington State Democrats’ executive committee. Andrus committed the “sin” of endorsing Republican Dan Evans in the state’s 1983 special U.S. Senate election. “Damned right they threw me out: It was a […]
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Seattle Port Commissioner Gael Tarleton has copped a coveted endorsement in her bid to leave port and get elected to the State House of Representatives from Seattle’s 36th District. Longtime State Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson, whose retirement has opened the House seat, is announcing her support for Tarleton in the Queen Anne-Magnolia-Ballard district. The 36th […]
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While several Seattle Catholic parishes have oped out of the anti-same-sex marriage campaign, a Kirkland pastor said Sunday that marriage was “created and defined by God” and that Gay marriage “is simply not possible.” The Rev. Kurt Nagel, pastor of Holy Family Parish, said he would “honor” Archbishop J. Peter Sartain’s letter saying parishes can […]
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Rocker, Reality TV performer, Romney supporter and illegal hunter Ted Nugent has been axed as the opening act of a June 23rd concert at the Fort Knox Army base in Kentucky. “After learning of opening act Ted Nugent’s recent pubic comments about the President of the United States, Fort Knox leadership decided to cancel his […]
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